Top 100 Quotes About Thinkers
#2. Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.
Peter F. Hamilton
#3. Information is key to raising awareness of what our brain withholds from our conscious mind. Unfortunately we are hardwired emotion-driven thinkers. It takes effort and training to exercise introspection and mindfulness.
David Bloor
#4. Christians always seemed like bad thinkers to me. It seemed that they could maintain their worldview only because they were sheltered from the world's real problems, like the material structures of poverty and violence and racism.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#5. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips
Cynthia Ozick
#6. As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.
Meghan Daum
#8. The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.
Havelock Ellis
#9. In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection ...
Pearl S. Buck
#10. Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.
Marianne Williamson
#11. Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
#12. Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
Ben Carson
#13. Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#14. Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities
that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.
Edgar Allan Poe
#15. If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.
George R R Martin
#16. ... fighters do not think and thinkers do not fight. That is the natural design of warfare. -Peter Kotara.
Ray Anyasi
#18. Scenius." Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals - artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers - who make up an "ecology of talent.
Austin Kleon
#19. What these thinkers, chroniclers, and interpreters have written about, how they have theorized their scholarly endeavors, and their approaches and methodologies have inevitably been informed and shaped by the times in which they existed.
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
#20. Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers.
Roger Schank
#21. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.
Daniel H. Pink
#22. Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
Emile M. Cioran
#23. It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
Max Planck
#24. Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
Marianne Williamson
#25. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Carroll Quigley
#26. Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose
and then to find
ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.
George Henry Lewes
#28. No: Space was the wrong name. Older thinkers had been wiser when they named it simply the heavens - the heavens which declared the glory - the happy climes that ly Where day never shuts his eye Up in the broad fields of the sky. He quoted Milton's words to himself lovingly, at this time and often.
C.S. Lewis
#29. All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts.
Bryant McGill
#30. Like a stripped and lifeless trunk the Oriental church produces no theologians, thinkers, or savants.
Emilia Pardo Bazan
#31. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse
J.R.D. Tata
#34. If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
Benjamin Carson
#35. Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.
David J. Schwartz
#36. To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
William James
#37. The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
Ayn Rand
#38. This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the "over" and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#39. Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.
Deborah Norville
#40. Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.
Charles Simic
#41. Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.
Tony Robbins
#42. Is truth something that in fact we do - and should - especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of bullshit?
Harry G. Frankfurt
#43. Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.
Thomas S. Monson
#44. Just as one generation could prevent the very existence of the next generation, by all entering a monastery or jumping into the sea, so one set of thinkers can in some degree prevent further thinking by teaching the next generation that there is no validity in any human thought
G.K. Chesterton
#45. 'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.
Marvin Ammori
#46. I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
Edward De Bono
#47. Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.
John Owen
#48. Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#49. Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
John Stuart Mill
#50. Independent thinkers are usually deemed nuts until everyone realizes they were onto something all along
Janice Sims
#51. Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers of society over the individual, both by the force of opinion and even by that of legislation:
John Stuart Mill
#52. Children aren't helped to become caring members of a community, or ethical decision-makers, or critical thinkers, so much as they're simply trained to follow directions.
Alfie Kohn
#53. Fast thinkers aren't smarter than slow. Collaborating in real time and over time leverages our collective value and limits pitfalls of both kinds of thinkers. Discuss options both face-to-face and virtually to enable fast and slow thinkers to optimize value for the team
Kare Anderson
#54. There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.
Edgar Allan Poe
#55. Philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization ... but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them?
Isaiah Berlin
#56. Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised.
Gregory B. Sadler
#57. linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works,
Seneca.
#58. It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Lafcadio Hearn
#60. Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward De Bono
#61. Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.
Joshua Rogers
#62. As a thinker, and most writers would consider themselves thinkers, your competition is not only the whole world, but it's also the people of the past, and the people of the future. And the people of the future are the dangerous ones, because you'll never know how good they are.
Jarod Kintz
#63. When a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.
James Vila Blake
#64. A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.
John Dewey
#65. When standing before certain men the philosopher regrets that thinkers are but perishable tissue, the artist that perishable tissue has to think.
Thomas Hardy
#66. Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.
Gary Rohrmayer
#67. In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility.
Nina Easton
#68. Leaders are deep thinkers. They don't relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#70. And in the night sky, the soaring sopranos fly out over the city, guarding it with song, catching the souls of those rare, lovely heart-thinkers.
David Arnold
#71. Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers ... that is a small population.
Alan Lightman
#72. Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself.
Edmund S. Lee
#74. In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.
Brene Brown
#75. History's best thinkers eventually concluded that our flaws were too powerful to trust with freedom. Thus we've been groomed as hamsters in a wheel that benefits a laughing few. No more great works will be accomplished under the regime, because beauty is not democratic or profitable.
D.B.C. Pierre
#76. Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little.
Victor Hugo
#77. Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
Alvin Dark
#78. I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.
Richard Rohr
#79. Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.
Michael Ignatieff
#80. Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.
Nancy Pearcey
#81. What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.
Nawal El Saadawi
#82. To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all beings with love and admiration and great respect.
Hermann Hesse
#83. We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.
John C. Maxwell
#84. The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
Agnes Repplier
#85. Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
Nas
#86. Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.
Gillian Flynn
#88. Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#89. Action is its own kind of thinking. We had to fight now: these people were a cancer who had crept into our stomachs and infected us all. We had to be surgeons, bold and clever, not thinkers and talkers.
John Marsden
#90. By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. Wilson
#91. If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#92. Great thinkers increase their self-esteem and mental capacity
Akubuiro Chidera
#93. The rigorous process of learning to develop and ask questions offers students the invaluable opportunity to become independent thinkers and self-directed learners.
Dan Rothstein
#95. Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental trials than those of nonbelief. It is quite difficult to ascertain the wishes of an invisible being.
Mark Thomas
#96. The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out in his writings about both thinkers, both modes are present.
Philip Kitcher
#97. Systems thinkers see the world as a collection of stocks along with the mechanisms for regulating the levels in the stocks by manipulating flows.
Donella H. Meadows
#98. During this lesson, teach them how to absorb knowledge as opposed to just memorizing. Teach them to become individual thinkers and not part of the majority that agrees with what is popular
afraid to stand alone in their thinking.
Ishmael Beah
#99. It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.
G.K. Chesterton
